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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Sep 04, 1952
Page
2
The piece notes a drought in Australia impacting crops and export prospects while comparing to Western Canada's past 1930s drought. It highlights expectations of good harvests locally and the global food supply context, urging sympathy for Australian farmers facing drought conditions.
Reports from Australia show nearly a million square miles north of the Tropic of Capricorn without moisture due to monsoon failure. Thousands of cattle are dying, with losses rivaling wheat shortages in Canada’s prairie farming. Farmers seek improved rail links and watered stock routes to move cattle during drought.
Anxious to produce more, Canadian farmers grow vast wheat while Australians push to raise meat to meet global demand. Weather cannot be controlled but drought fears are addressed by proper measures. Northern Australia faces a loss of 100000 tons of meat destined for overseas markets. Canadians sympathize with the situation.
News item advertises the 1952 edition of Alice Brooks Needlecraft Book from Winni Newspaper Union. It highlights ninety one illustrations and six easy patterns, priced at twenty five cents, with call to write name address and pattern number.
Canadians slowed spending in June marking the first dip of the year but still spent well above 1951 levels. Six month retail sales reached 5.27 billion, up from 4.98 billion a year earlier, with June totaling 978.263 million and May at 1.053 billion.
In Syracuse a patrolman on a motorcycle chased two youths who displayed a sign reading Danger slow down Police ahead. The scene shows motorists moving within speed limits as police used electronic timers to monitor traffic.
Timber wolf in the Anjigami lake area north of Sault Ste. Marie roams nightly with a saddle pony, the pair keeping close, then part at dawn. The wolf feeds at a garbage dump alongside two bears, reported by Chief Ranger Byron Smith at Sand Lake.
In Hazelton British Columbia a 60 mile road through wild terrain opened a route to the Babine River slide site to save sockeye salmon. Foresters and fisheries crews dynamited pools and built ladders allowing more than 3,000 fish daily to reach Babine Lake as biologists pursue a permanent channel or ladders for future runs.
A collection of humorous vignettes shows couples, fiances, and friends in witty exchanges. One liner exchanges touch on approaching thirty, fashion woes, and wedding plans. The tone mixes irony and domestic irony with playful misreadings.
A moist loaf scented with banana and bran. The recipe uses pastry or all purpose flour, leavening agents, sugar, egg, bran cereal, banana, lemon juice, vanilla, and melted butter or margarine. Bake in a four inch leaf pan at 325 degrees for about 65 minutes and cool before slicing thinly with butter.
A reader identified as Mrs A C S Whittier writes about long suffering from eczema around the ankles. She credits a remedy called Moose's Ea eraid On and notes improvement after two months and relief from widespread torment.
Helmsman Shamp and two companions Norman Thomas and Howie Martin describe a 25 day trek through the Nahanni Valley in the Northwest Territories. They faced damaged gear, freezing weather, and a whirlpool before returning to Glacier Lake with minimal rations and weight loss.
Paul Le Siege and Georges Hooper teen-aged students return from a 35 day 7000 mile western Canada tour costing under 50 dollars. They earlier toured the Gaspe peninsula for 7 dollars 50 cents. This summer they roamed in a pup tent or emergency town accommodations and visited the Calgary Stampede. A porcupine cannot shoot its quills.
The act requires no mention of legitimacy on birth forms and stores a complete record of both parents in a private file. Parents who later marry may request that the birth be registered as if the couple had married at the time of birth.
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